If you use the Scan-to-Email function on the printer/scanner in your small business, Patent Trolls are looking for you!

What’s a “Patent Troll”? One definition of a patent troll is an organization that owns a patent which it intends to use for the sole purpose of suing someone else. A patent troll typically does not market or manufacture the product that the patent covers. The FTC calls them “patent assertion entities” or PAEs, and recently released a 309-page report on patents available here http://www.ftc.gov/os/2011/03/110307patentreport.pdf.